Re: USAGE: Help with Chinese phrase

Ray Brown scripsit:

> BTW I am very familiar with both Pinyin and Gwoyeu Romatzyh, but have
> _very_ little information on Latinxua. A quick search on Google wasn't
> helpful. Does anyone ave more information on this scheme?
Here's a (possibly not comprehensive) list of differences between Beifang
Latinxua (aka BeiLa, aka BL) and Hanyu Pinyin (PY).

Initials:
PY h = BL x.
PY r = BL rh.
PY j, q, x = BL z, c, s when the historic sound was a palatal, or
	BL g, k, x when the historic sound was a velar.

Finals:
PY e is usually o in BL (Pinyin only uses o in o, bo, mo, po, fo).
PY er is just r in BL.
PY )Bü (and u when that represents [y]) is y in BL,
	so yu, ju, qu, xu are y, zy, cy, sy respectively,
	and ue/yue, uan/yuan, un/yun are ye/yo, yan, yn respectively.
PY i in zi ci si zhi chi shi ri is not written in BL.
PY ong = BL ung.
PY iong = BL yng.

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